Frogr

Overview

Frogr is a small application for the GNOME desktop that allows users to manage their accounts in the Flickr image hosting website. It supports all the basic Flickr features, including uploading pictures, adding descriptions, setting tags and managing sets and groups pools.

Binary packages

Building from the source tarballs is nice, but sometimes is more convenient to get apps installed through other ways, so this section explains how to get frogr installed in some of the most common distros out there:

Flatpak

Flatpak is a new way of distributing applications on Linux so that the same bundle can be installed in different distributions, even different versions at the same time. Frogr has been adapted to support flatpak so, assuming that you have a recent enough version of flatpak (0.6.13 or later), you can easily install the latest stable version easily by running a single command:

Once installed for the first time, you can easily update it later on with:

flatpak update org.gnome.frogr

Note that, to be able to authenticate your account, you'll need to have installed the portal frontend service for Flatpak as well as a backend implementation (such as the one for GTK+), so that it's possible for Frogr to open URIs in applications outside its sandbox (e.g. using the browser for authentication, open an image in the viewer). Fortunately, this are currently shipped with Debian/Ubuntu/Fedora and others, so you can easily install them as any other packages in your system:

Note that, starting with frogr 1.4, the PPA-based way won't longer be supported due to a combination of being too time-consuming for very little gain now that Flatpak is available as a much better method to install the latest version of Frogr not just on Ubuntu, but on any distribution where Flatpak is available.

Fedora

For the specific case of Fedora, frogr is packaged since Fedora 15 (Lovelock), so you should be able to install it by just doing:

Arch Linux

Mac OS X (unsupported)

For Mac OS X, there's an older version of Frogr packaged for Intel architectures that you can download from the GNOME FTP server. This is no longer officially supported and has been completely deprecated (meaning that no more releases are expected), so there's a chance that it no longer works, specially in newer versions of OS X. Use at your own risk.

Get Involved

Mailing list

At the time, there's just one mailing list, both for general or technical discussion.

Translations

News

2017/12/28: Frogr 1.4 released. Fixed problems reading pictures from certain cameras/phones, migrated to the meson build system and updated translations. See the NEWS file for more details.

2017/05/20: Frogr 1.3 released. Improved support for flatpak, removed deprecated widgets and updated translations. See the NEWS file for more details.

2016/10/05: Frogr 1.2 released. Just a minor release to make it easier to package frogr in older distros. See the NEWS file for more details.

2016/10/04: Frogr 1.1 released. Added support for Flatpak, fixed a few bugs and updated lots of translations. See the NEWS file for more details.

2015/12/30: Frogr 1.0 released. First 1.x release ever! See the NEWS file for more details.

2015/01/07: Frogr 0.11 released. Moved to GtkHeaderBar if GTK+ >= 3.12, added new option to set "date posted" to "date taken" and a few other improvements and fixes. See the NEWS file for more details.

2014/06/17: Frogr 0.10 released. Use the SSL end points of the Flickr API, fix issues with the installation of the AppData file and a few other improvements and bug fixes. See the NEWS file for more details.

2014/01/17: Frogr 0.9 released. Ported to GStreamer 1.0, fixed selection of multiple pictures in the main view, improved memory usage, among several other improvements and bug fixes. See the NEWS file for more details.

2012/12/29: Frogr 0.8 released. Ported to GtkApplication and GMenu, added support for video uploads and implemented the "Save/Load projects" feature, among several other improvements and bug fixes. See the NEWS file for more details.

2012/05/22: Frogr 0.7 released. Updated to support the new OAuth-based authentication system, allow importing tags from pictures's metadata, possibility of using a dark theme and some other goodies. See the NEWS file for more details.

2011/08/19: Frogr 0.6.1 released. This is just a bugfixing release, no new features added. See the NEWS file for more details.

2011/08/13: Frogr 0.6 released. Better integration with GNOME proxy settings, ability to open pictures in the default image viewer, enabling the user to set the license for every picture, a better UI (bigger and better thumbnails) and a new User Manual are the main features, along with the usual bugfixing work. See the NEWS file for more details.

2011/05/27: Frogr 0.5 released. Includes some new small (but handy) features and several bugfixes. See the NEWS file for more details.

2011/02/05: Frogr 0.4 released. Includes lots of new features and bugfixes. See the NEWS file for more details.